Selling direct, without advertising or promotions, means our prices are about one half those of similar motorsailers.

My company, Seahorse Marine, has been building passagemakers at our factory in Zhuhai, China, for 21 years. We mainly sell our vessels directly to the end user providing a fine product at great savings. Build time is around 12 months for the Mandarin 52, depending on suppliers, current orders and weather.

Shipped or take delivery at the factory.

The Mandarin 52 foot motorsailer (50' + a 2' swim/dive/boarding platform) is my favorite passagemaker. I seem to be building more power-only trawler yachts lately. But, personally I have never figured out why people want to rely on mechanical devices in the middle of the ocean while throwing away a wind equaling their boat speed, which they paid for - and than worrying about fuel??

The Mandarin is a full keel no nonsense motorsailer, 52' LOA with a 56' mast. Furling on all sails is standard and Harken winches makes sail handling a breeze.

The forward arrangements can be the traditional "V" berth or side double bunk cabin and a second double bunk cabin to port or a single queen size cabin. A head with separate shower is located to starboard.

Aft of the very large main saloon, 10 by 15 feet, are the galley to port and the large workshop to starboard. A spiral staircase leads to the pilothouse with its own dinette and to the cockpit.

The aft cabin has a head with a full size tub, Jacuzzi optional, or large shower. The standard layout has a centered queen size bed and eight feet of hanging locker space. An optional den/office arrangement has the bed to starboard, a large centered desk with a panorama view through the transom and a small sofa to port.

The MANDARIN 52 MOTORSAILER shall be specified by construction drawings approved by Seahorse Marine which shall consist of no less than general arrangements and construction details including the lay-up schedule together with the standard equipment listed above.

CONSTRUCTION: Clear gelcoat to be used below the water line and the first mat layer is installed resin rich using vinylester resin for blister control. Bottom sealed with double epoxy seal. Deck and topside lay-up includes outside laminates. 3/4" balsa core for stiffness and temperature insulation and mat with double roving inside laminate.Overlapping and interlaced double lapping at stem and keel and UDR reinforcements at chainplates and stringer caps for extra strength. Bottom solid lay-up varies from 5/8" to 1 1/4".Quality bottom paint applied.Hard roller used for proper resin/glass ratio and to minimize air encapsulation.Hull to deck joint bedded in epoxy, bolted and double bonded inside and out with UDR. Interior construction to allow easy access to hull to deck joint.Four large FRP hull stringers. UDR reinforced and built high enough to act as saddles for sole plates. All interior furniture heavily glass taped to hull for additional reinforcement.All plywood to be WBP grade or higher.Exterior teak brightwork limited to cockpit edge.Caprail has stainless trim.Heavy duty hull rub rail with polished stainless cap.Vessel painted with LPU to purchaser's colors.

Back lighted custom made circuit breaker panels using high quality breakers, Three panels put electrical controls where needed. An operation panel is located in the pilothouse (described in pilothouse section of these specifications); a sub panel is located in the galley and the house panel is located in the main salon near the engine room door.Master breakers are GFI (RCB) type for safety. Shore power and 24 volt lighting; quality lighting fixtures. Lots of indirect lighting to minimize the "workshop" lighting style found on most cruising boats.All Seahorse Marine installed wiring is multi-strand tinned copper boat cable. Wires have color or marker codes for easy tracing. AC wiring is sized to the more demanding 110 volt requirements on boats built for 220 volt systems to maximumize resale market. Wire runs in conduit and all runs, except the bilge pumps, are located as far above the waterline as possible. All wire runs including those along the shear are easily accessible.AC shore connector fitted to starboard side of pilothouse. AC receptacles through out, 14 total. DC sockets installed in cockpit and pilothouse.Copper bonding strip installed the length of the keel to four zinc's at the stern. All chain plates and through hulls wired to bonding strip and keel castings.International navigation lights and mast mounted deck lighting installed. Security flood lighting; Red interior night safety lighting and stern platform courtesy lighting installed. Pilothouse overhead lights have red and white bulbs.Strobe, tri-color and anchor light at mast head.Optional electronic and entertainment equipment can be planned in advance with owner so necessary wiring, grounds and cabinets can be built in.A counterpoise reflector for SSB can be molded into the deck lay-up to the owner's designed.VHF antenna at mast head.

WATER SYSTEM: Two water tanks, approximately 350 gallons total, with ball-cock shut off valves and vents designed to prevent salt water contamination.Water tanks coated with epoxy certified for potable water use. A 50' hose fed by raw water pump is located in a cockpit locker and a second hose is at bow for anchor wash. Fresh water system uses copper tubing, not plastic. Fresh and raw water pumps can easily be interchanged in case of failure.Activated carbon water filter at galley.Stainless ball type sea-cocks on all thruhulls below the waterline.Double all stainless clamps on all hoses below the waterline.Hot water heater with electric and engine heat exchanger for domestic water supply.High quality bath and galley fixtures. Shore water attachment with regulator installed.

NOTE: Equipment choices and hull colors to be determined in consultation with purchaser.

GALLEY: Galley sink is double with faucet including spray hose.Electric stove w/oven with sea rails, and full size refrigerator in freezer.Trash bin installed, sized for optional trash compactor.Galley over 10' long and designed for easy bracing in seaway.Lots of storage in galley, under soles and in workshop.

Additional Information

HEADS: Each head includes toilet, shower, basin and storage.Aft head has full size tub.Electric toilets with holding tank and overboard or deck drain.Each head has port and power ventilation on timer switches.All towel rails are to handrail strength. Mirrors are fitted in heads as well as each sleeping cabin.

DECK: Solid stainless pulpits and tubing hand rail (not wire) fully grounded to provide Faraday cage for lighting protection. 34" high for safety.Stainless steel heavy duty cleats and chocks, not chrome bronze.Handrails and cast deck gear 316 stainless.Boarding gates port, starboard with fold down boarding ladders. Bow pulpit is walk through type with step/seat.Heavy duty double anchor chute with bronze rollers.Muir electric anchor windlass with 45LB anchor and 275' ACCO 5/16" hi-test (G4) chain rode.Deck and dash switches for up and down operation.Stern platform designed as an "open cockpit" with rails, steps to back deck and storage boxes which can be used for seats when underway. The aft gate folds down to become a boarding ladder. A great place for fun and fishing. A dinghy outboard can be easily stored in one of the aft platform storage boxes.Five foot draft, full length keel. The Mandarin 52 is one of the world's only blue water cruising yachts which will also navigate most of the European and U.S. canal systems.A deep sided and safe cockpit, fully scuppered with a sun and rain shade at pilothouse door.Ten deck and stern platform storage boxes with scuppered secure covers. Two dedicated to line and sheet storage, very important on a motorsailer. One cockpit locker dedicated to life raft storage with room for grab bag, plus insulated drinks box in cockpit.A 50' raw water hose is easily available in its on cockpit locker. This hose will reach anywhere in the vessel.Shower fixture installed at transom, hot and cold water.Strong Lewmar hatches in deck and pilothouse. Each cabin has an escape hatch.Stainless steel ports in hull with strong tempered glass. Eleven total.Teak cockpit seats using an epoxy bedding system.Molded in non-skid pattern on deck.Three deck prisms.

PILOTHOUSE: Pilothouse is fully scuppered with storm board companion way hatch to main saloon for extra safety.Engine controls and steering in pilothouse.Marine circuit breakers for all boat operations and for electronics installed in the pilothouse.Safety monitor panel to give visual and audio indication of the status of all the systems in the vessel. Basically allows the person on watch to know everything that is happening in the boat with instant fault warnings.Audio warnings for high bilge water, engine raw water flow, high engine room temperature, water leaks at the intake trunk area (covers engine room intakes, all water filters, fresh and raw water pumps, engine exhaust and water heater).Visual indication of any electric pump running: audio pump overrun alarm if any pump runs over one minute (can be adjusted up to three minutes).Audio alarms can only be defeated by a key switch.Stainless or teak helm wheel.Pantograph windshield wipers with fresh water wash.Tinted side windows in pilothouse, non-tinted forward windshields.Forward windshields are heavy 10mm safety glass and slanted pilothouse design reduces water pressure on glass and boat structure in a serious green water situation.Navigation compass installed.

MAST AND SAILS: Standard mast includes double spreaders and double backstays with furling main, genoa, optional staysail.There is no boom and the furling main is sheeted to an atwartship spreader bar with full beam Harken traveler mounted between the double back stays. A simple and safe proven system. Full walk around aft deck without interference from stays. (In boom furling optional)Stainless steel rigging with high quality turnbuckles, 10MM" upper shrouds and fwd and back stays.Reefing behind the mast main and 130% furling genoa included.Optional staysail with staysail stay, halyard winch, halyard and furling installed.Deck and sail handling gear to be appropriately sized for blue water cruising.Three large Harken winches for main and genoa, 5 additional Harken winches.Heavy duty genoa sheet turning blocks which can be used when towing warps.----------------------------------------------------

(In order to incorporate improvements Seahorse Marine reserves the right to substitute features without notice.)